Due to ALA being within easy driving distance this year, the library offered to pay for our ticket to attend. This was my first ALA conference.
Children’s books
I bought this for one of my nephews and then liked it so much I kept it because I’m a bad aunt. I’ll have to buy him another copy.
Studio Ghibli’s latest beautiful movie based on Mary Norton’s The Borrowers (yes I realize this is the French movie poster, but I like this one best).
At SDCC, my friend drew my attention to a series of graphic novels called Korgi at the Top Shelf booth. She has a corgi/pomeranian mix, who looks pretty much like a slightly fluffy corgi, so naturally she would gravitate towards an adorable graphic novel with a corgi hero.
I also have a fondness for corgis. They’re such happy looking dogs! And they look like foxes. I also have Tasha Tudor’s corgi books, because they make me happy with the cuteness.
So after SDCC, my friend lent me her copies of books 1 & 2, which is all that’s out so far.
Korgi is about a world with creatures called Mollies, which are basically little fairy-like people, who live in the forest with their companions, Korgis. Korgis look like they come in a variety of sizes, and they seem to be of human intelligence and have special powers. This graphic novel is done entirely in pictures with no words at all (except the intro, which is by Wart the Toad, and scrollkeeper of the Mollies). The pictures are extremely detailed ink-work, with loving attention paid towards making the Korgis as adorable as possible.
The stars of the series are Ivy, a young female Mollie (who is a very good female protagonist), and her faithful companion Sprout the Korgi, and their exploration adventures.
This is a truly all-ages “read” with maybe some slight scariness for the very young (there’s some goblin-like baddies, and an ominous alien). But the huggable Korgis should balance that out. And since it’s wordless, you can make it sound like however you want, and make it more or less scary as you see fit.
